Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered. There are though a bit far away.

9 October 2020 By Paul Martin

This artist's depiction shows the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone identified by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. An artist’s image of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star. The ‘habitable planet’ was identified by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. (© NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech)